{"id":653536,"date":"2025-04-11T04:17:30","date_gmt":"2025-04-11T08:17:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?p=653536"},"modified":"2025-04-11T04:17:30","modified_gmt":"2025-04-11T08:17:30","slug":"saudi-arabia-kaoru-mitoma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2025\/04\/11\/saudi-arabia-kaoru-mitoma\/","title":{"rendered":"Al Nassr Continue to Haunt Brighton Amid Kaoru Mitoma Interest"},"content":{"rendered":"

Brighton are aiming for a European place this season, with Fabian Hurzeler having enjoyed mixed success in his first season at the Seagulls. An FA Cup quarter-final followed a seven-game unbeaten run, but since that disappointing loss on penalties, Brighton has failed to win their previous two league games. <\/span>This<\/span> could have been <\/span>a lot<\/span> worse if star winger Karou Mitoma departed in January.<\/span><\/p>\n

Mitoma Rejects Saudia Arabia to Stay In the Premier League<\/h2>\n

Al Nassr Following From January\u2019s Interest<\/h3>\n

It was a stressful January for Seagull’s fans, with the news that Al Nassr <\/span>were<\/span> lining up massive bids for their star winger. The club <\/span>has signed<\/span> the likes of Cristiano Rolando, Sadio Mane <\/span>and<\/span> Jhon Duran and <\/span>were<\/span> looking to bolster <\/span>their<\/span> attack in the January transfer window.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Brighton rejected the first offer of <\/span>\u00a354 million<\/span><\/a>. Al Nassr prepared another bid shortly after. <\/span>Their second bid of a whopping <\/span>\u00a375 million<\/span><\/a> was also pushed away by the Sussex team.<\/span> According to <\/span>Alex Crook<\/span><\/a>, they are now looking at a summer move for the 27-year-old. Despite this, he is not interested in a move to the Middle East. <\/span>The Brighton winger has two years left on his contract after he signed a 4-year deal in 2023<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Why Brighton Want to Keep Hold of Mitoma<\/h3>\n

Brighton have successfully kept Mitoma at the club despite many teams linking themselves to him in the past. He has nailed down the left-wing position for the last few years. On his <\/span>day<\/span> he is one of the best wingers in the league. <\/span>His electric <\/span>pace<\/span> combined with his incredible ball <\/span>control<\/span> makes<\/span> him one of the best dribblers in the league.<\/span> He is a nightmare for many Premier League defenders to play against.<\/span><\/p>\n

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He has racked up eight goals and three assists this season <\/span>in all competitions<\/span>.<\/span> This<\/span> has made it his second-best season for goal contributions after the 2022\/23 season, with 17 goal contributions in the campaign that Brighton clinched European football for the first time.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Seagulls manager <\/span>Fabian Hurzeler<\/span> expressed<\/a> his delight when Mitoma chose to stay at Brighton in January. <\/span>“<\/span>I’m<\/span> pleased, but I think <\/span>he’s<\/span> also pleased that <\/span>he’s<\/span> playing for Brighton because he also knows what he gets from us and <\/span>he<\/span> knows that he can develop here.<\/span> He showed his commitment from the first day. He was never asked in the club to respond to that offer. So we showed an impressive reaction beside and on the pitch<\/span>.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Brighton are aiming for a European place this season, with Fabian Hurzeler having enjoyed mixed success in his first season at the Seagulls. An FA Cup quarter-final followed a seven-game unbeaten run, but since that disappointing loss on penalties, Brighton has failed to win their previous two league games. This could have been a lot […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5505,"featured_media":653592,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1265,7188],"tags":[2567,8731],"class_list":["post-653536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-premier-league","category-brighton-and-hove-albion","category-rumours","tag-al-nassr","tag-kaoru-mitoma"],"modified_by":"Alex Richards, LWOF Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5505"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=653536"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653536\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":653593,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653536\/revisions\/653593"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/653592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=653536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=653536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=653536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}